New features, improvements, fixes and guides, newest first. Every entry has its own page and date.
Offers, prices and related eBay auctions on your product pages now update live. Visitors see current prices and auctions that are still running, so the buttons they click lead to what they expect.
Product pages now show one offer per merchant. Instead of a long list with several offers from the same shop, visitors see each merchant once, which makes it easier to compare prices and pick where to buy.
Custom redirects can now use full page paths, not just slugs. You can send an old address, such as a nested category or article path, to its new home, which helps when you move content around or bring a site over from elsewhere.
A set of smaller upgrades went out to every store:
You can now pick from more Amazon countries in your store's offer settings. Choose the Amazon stores your visitors shop at and add your tracking ID for each one, so links to those Amazon stores carry your ID and earn you commission. Countries you leave unticked are not used.
If you refer people to FreshStore as an affiliate, your affiliate dashboard now tracks payouts. Your paid, unpaid and eligible commission totals are worked out from your payout history, so the numbers you see are accurate. Commissions on refunded orders are left out of your totals, and your affiliate tag can now be longer.
The Instant Store library has more than 20 new ready-made niches. Each one gives you a complete store built around its topic, so you can start from a niche that fits your audience instead of building from a blank store. Pick one when you create your next Instant Store.
Offers are now checked on a smarter schedule, so the prices and availability in your stores go stale less often. Visitors are more likely to see the same price when they click through to the merchant, which builds trust and helps sales.
Each store in your account now shows how many products and categories it has, next to its status. You can see at a glance how far each store has grown, and spot a store that needs more products, without logging in to each store admin.
Hosted WordPress websites can now be upgraded to the latest WordPress release by the platform. Your site gets the newest features and fixes without you having to run the update yourself, and older sites hosted with us stay compatible with current themes and plugins.
AI can now write a product's meta title and meta description together, in one step. Both are written to match each other and the product, which saves a click and gives search engines a clean, consistent summary of every product page.
The list of free vanity domains has grown past 24, and some of them suit particular niches. Pick one when you create a store and launch without buying a domain name. You can still connect your own domain whenever you are ready.
The Instant Store library has new niches, including parrots, journals and wearable tech. Each one is a researched, ready made store with products, categories and articles in place, so you can launch in a new niche without starting from a blank page.
The testimonials on your store homepage now use different names and text for each store, instead of the same set everywhere. Every store looks more individual, and visitors who see more than one store do not find the same quotes repeated.
Offer search now recognises offer IDs from every merchant, not only Amazon ASINs. Paste the ID of a product you already know and FreshStore finds the offer directly. Walmart searches are also more precise, so you see the product you meant.
The product list in the store admin can now add many products to several categories in one go, which saves time when you organise a growing store. The list also shows each product's best offer price, so you can spot products without a good offer at a glance.
Product listing boxes in your store now show the brand of each product. Visitors can see at a glance who makes an item while they browse a category, which helps them compare products and quickly find the brands they know and trust.
Your RSS feeds now include descriptions, summaries, images and categories, so they look better in feed readers and on any site or tool that shares them. Browsers and readers can also find your feeds automatically from your store pages, so visitors can subscribe in one click.
The domain page now checks your CNAME record or nameservers live and tells you plainly when your setup is correct, or when it is still updating. It also explains that DNS changes can take 24 to 48 hours to spread, so you know when to wait and when to fix something.
When you generate articles with AI, you can now choose whether they are switched on as soon as they are finished. Leave them off if you want to read and edit each article before visitors see it, or switch them on to publish straight away.
You can now view your store while it is disabled, as long as you are logged in to the store admin. Visitors still cannot see it, so you can build, check and polish your store in private before you switch it on for everyone.
There is now one more free vanity domain to choose from when you create a store. Vanity domains let you launch a store without buying a domain name, and you can switch to your own domain whenever you are ready. More choice makes it easier to find a store address that fits your niche.
Your stores now send visitors to the secure https version automatically, and to one consistent address, with or without www. Search engines see one version of each page instead of several, which is better for your rankings, and visitors always get a secure connection. The store admin is also faster.
Every affiliate link in your stores now carries the nofollow attribute, as search engines expect for affiliate links. This happens automatically on every store, so you do not need to change anything. It keeps your stores in line with search engine guidelines and helps protect your rankings.
